unfortunately for us in congress right now, you have this several war unfolding in congress, and it's making congress completely dysfunctional. america, your congress does not work because of this civil war that's going on. >> although there will be republicans, paul, who say that is working. we're stopping things we think are bad for america. >> but it's not working for them certainly politically. i checked. party identification. the percentage of americans who call themselves republicans, all time low, lower than watergate, only 21%, say that they're republicans today. that's a catastrophe, and here's why. there's two things going on at once, and it's really unusual to have them happen simultaneously. republicans become more ideologically conservative, move farther from the mainstream, and they're more fractured. usually when you become more fractures, more left or right in either party, you get more cohesion. here the neanderthals are fighting with the cro-magnons, the neo-liths. it's great. i love it as a democrat. >> are you the cro-magnon? >> i'm happy to be a modern hispanic re